I’ve lost count
Of the times
I’ve needed numbers
To be even, not odd
Yet I know
How irrational it seems
To place my destiny
In digits like these
It offers comfort
And control
To do something twice
Not once, nor more
(c) Sanch – Living my Imperfect Life (2014)
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Until next time,
Cheers!!!
Bikram
23 July 2014 at 1:55 amhmmm true .. I sit down to find six digits to put a lottery and cant find which one to choose , os i giuve up
no wonder i have not won a lottery ever 🙂
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Tina
23 July 2014 at 4:50 amA glimpse of OCD, perhaps? I guess that we all for little rituals to help us get through the day. Well done!
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Jennifer Knoblock
24 July 2014 at 1:13 amAh, and so clever how you’ve balanced your phrases in twos: even, not odd; comfort and control; not once, nor more. Love the very rational voice in this.
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Meg
24 July 2014 at 7:47 amTo echo Jennifer’s comment, I also love the very rational tone in this. You so neatly reproduce the anxiety of anxiety disorders, like OCD. (I used to have an irrational fear that I would drive straight into a truck, so much that I was convinced that I would make myself do it.) The tight phrasing here evokes that need for control. Nicely done!
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Swathi Shenoy
24 July 2014 at 5:22 pmI have felt it too! Wanting the numbers to be even not odd, always! Don’t know why it irritates me but it does!
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Sanch @ Living my Imperfect Life
24 July 2014 at 11:35 pmWe all have a bit of OCD in us! 😀
Suzy
24 July 2014 at 5:45 pmLuckily I don’t have that need but I can see how it would drive someone crazy if the odd numbers showed up.
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Sanch @ Living my Imperfect Life
24 July 2014 at 11:34 pmYep…or the other way around. A client of mine has great difficulty with even numbers…
Shailaja V
24 July 2014 at 6:02 pmOh you share my OCD 😀 Especially when I am walking down the stairs, counting birds, I always have to end on an even number and a round one is even better 😉 Lovely picture too, Sanch!
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Sanch @ Living my Imperfect Life
24 July 2014 at 11:34 pmHaha…I must admit I don’t count as much. It was based a bit on a client with OCD but they have odd numbers as ‘good’ numbers. I do like my volume on the TV or stereo to be an even number or else a multiple of 5. That’s my OCD.! 😀
Shalini
24 July 2014 at 7:18 pmUnfortunately, I go for odd! 😛 I keep picking up “Gems” chocolate till I get an odd number-~~
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Sanch @ Living my Imperfect Life
24 July 2014 at 11:32 pmI have a client at the moment with OCD who goes for odd numbers. The only odd numbers I like are 5s… 🙂
that cynking feeling
25 July 2014 at 1:15 amI’ve been reading through the comments, so I know that you personally don’t have OCD. Yet, the voice in this was so believable, I thought you were sharing a glimpse into your own experience. Well done.
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Esther
25 July 2014 at 1:35 amThis is a lovely little sentiment about superstition/OCD. I’ve shared this experience. How wonderful that you are so sensitive to your client’s issue.
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Nate
25 July 2014 at 7:27 amI liked the double meaning of “not odd” – the literal sense of the numbers but also the idea that the narrator didn’t want to be thought of as odd. Nice work!
Aditi
25 July 2014 at 12:17 pmCute verses…what got you yo write this? 🙂
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Sanch @ Living my Imperfect Life
30 July 2014 at 5:21 amThanks Aditi…I’m currently working with a client with OCD who has a thing about numbers. And I personally prefer even numbers and multiples of 5 over odd! :p